Can you fry a portion of your motherboard?

[daflyboys]

I'll try to give the Reader's Digest version.

Had a 256 ATI Radeon card agp (9550). Bought a new (but opened) 512mb Radeon card agp (X1600Pro), installed it and plugged it in. Worked for a couple of days, but had some glitchiness in some games graphics. Tried to install somewhat older drivers; went to test it on TW07..... screen turned black. Then constant attempts to reboot/system restore never stayed stable. Went back to the old 256 card..... can't stay stable. Also, for a while, my internet connection was very draggy (other components in the house on the same router were fine.) Strangely, internet since then has cleared up, but I can't get either card to function. I should also mention that my power supply (250W) is probably too small to run the 512 card (?) I have a 128 agp card I could try, but I'm thinking it would be futile.

Is it possible to fry out just that slot (agp) of my motherboard?

[p_rushing]

Re: Can you fry a portion of your motherboard?

Yes you can fry any of the circuits on the board. Other than looking for a burnt spot, no real easy way to tell since it is an AGP slot. If the videocard has an led on it, that would tell you if it has power. You do need a new power supply and maybe that was what went bad when it couldn't supply all the power needs.

[daflyboys]

Re: Can you fry a portion of your motherboard?

Thanks, I think I got that. Maybe this will give me an excuse to upgrade. Thinking of going barebones and using many of my existing components. The only thing I need to find out is if I take my existing hard drive (the one I boot XP from) and use it with a new motherboard & all, will it boot up my new cpu?